ABSTRACT
Using plant parts to treat various diseases is already existed in various Indian systems of medicines especially in Ayurveda. Most of the prescribed drug and medicines are discovered based on the traditional knowledge. Although several experimental results also proven the importance of herbal formulations by their positive results. But recent days, herbal practices are less desirable among the peoples compared to ancient times. Some indigenous communities are still practicing primitive remediation for particular illness categories. In silico methods are promising field to highlight the particular usage of plant compound and their probability of activity toward the disease category. It prevents blind platform rather than organized outline toward the experimental procedure. Some of the examples of the results are Morinda citrifolia L. recommended for cancer disease in traditional medicine and in silico and investigation also reveals that the plant compound morindin having chemopreventive (Pa: 0.91) and anticarcinogenic activity (Pa: 0.92). The greater Pa values indicate binding capacity of a specific compound for specific activity predicted by in silico tool. This technique adopts interdisciplinary understating of traditional medicines and pharmaceutical industries to identify particular compound to work against various illness conditions.
